Browsing FGV EPGE - Ensaios Econômicos by Author "Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos"
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The effect of social security, demography and technology on retirement
2008-12-08This article investigates the causes in the reduction of labor force participation of the old. We argue that the changes in social security policy, in technology and in demography may account for most of the changes in ... -
The effect of social security, demography and technology on retirement
2010-10-21This article investigates the causes in the reduction of labor force participation of the old. We argue that the changes in social security policy, in technology and in demography may account for most of the changes in ... -
The effect of social security, health, demography and technology on retirement
2012-02-24This article studies the determinants of the labor force participation of the elderly and investigates the factors that may account for the increase in retirement in the second half of the last century. We develop a ... -
Globalization and the Industrial Revolution
2010-10-21This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industrial Revolution, allowing the economy to shift resources to the manufacture without facing food and raw materials shortage. ... -
Globalization and the Industrial Revolution (revised)
2014-06-13This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industrial Revolution. We calibrate a two-good and two-sector overlapping generations model to Englandís historical development and ... -
The impact of AIDS on income and human capital
2009-02-12This paper studies the impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita income and education. It explores two channels from HIV/AIDS to income that have not been sufficiently stressed by the literature: the reduction of the incentives to ... -
Optimal notional defined contributions
2021Notional Defined Contributions (NDC) systems mimic the incentive structure of fully funded social security while preserving the Pay-as-you-go nature of most current systems. We study size-preserving social reforms which ... -
Progressive Consumption Taxes
In a static setting, whether consumption or labor income is progressively taxed is irrelevant for household choices and welfare. In a dynamic setting, however, these two forms of progressivity have markedly di erent ... -
Redistribution with labor market frictions
How should search frictions in the labor market affect distributive policies? Can we assess current real-world policies? After building a framework for answering these questions we show that any constrained efficient ...
